Pleasures. Marriage and Sexual Life of Peasants in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (17th–18th Centuries). Tomasz Wiślicz

"Lyuboschi" is a unique attempt to reconstruct the intimate world of the peasants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the backdrop of early modern Europe. Based on the achievements of world and Polish historiography, and having studied hundreds of court cases of village courts, a significant part of which originate from the Russo-Polish borderland, Tomasz Wislic recreated the lives of ordinary peasants of the 17th–18th centuries and showed their private lives, which were always in the shadow of grand historical narratives and privileged strata of society. The book describes in detail the premarital relationships, marriage, and extramarital affairs of the commoners, their ideas about the physical and moral, individual experiences and sexual practices, as well as their coexistence with established religious and social norms. For historians, ethnologists, social and cultural anthropologists, as well as for a wide range of readers who want to know more about the informal side of our past.

The book was published with the support of the Polish Institute in Kyiv.